Northrop Grumman Corporation has added 30 new jobs at its composites manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City (Utah) this year, and it aims to add a total of 100 new jobs over the next few years.

The re-purposed 90,000ft² facility will accommodate the company’s composite aerospace-structure manufacturing programmes.

Northrop Grumman currently has facilities in 13 locations across Utah and employs more than 4,500 people in the state.

Wendy Williams, Northrop Grumman’s (www.northropgrumman.com) general manager (aerospace structures), said: “Our expanded footprint enables us to better serve our customers.

This investment in our employees and in the local community will also enable a variety of new opportunities and additional jobs in the state of Utah.”

Aerospace programme work at the re-purposed Salt Lake City facility will use proprietary automated forming processes that have been instrumental in the development and manufacture of high-rate-production composite aerospace structures that are of high quality and dimensionally precise.